Hello Steemit,

My name is Nico Scholtz. I work in IT infrastructure and networking. I have no experience in writing about myself or anything about my life, so this is a first for me. Any helpful comments and advice is welcome. I got introduced to Steemit by @aidanblue and I saw Steemit a few times while browsing the web.

I have stayed my whole life in South Africa. The past decade I spent my time in the Western Cape.

I started my career as an instructor at a college teaching students networking. Ill refrain from using IT abbreviations as they won’t make too much sense and I don’t feel it would be needed in an introduction post. This 4-5 years of my life was very draining and was never really my passion. Spend your days teaching and nights preparing so I had to get out.

I joined a new company afterwards and are currently still with them where I can focus on using my skill set I have developed over the years. This has been over 5 years now.

I recently stopped one of my biggest hobbies and that was playing a computer game called DOTA 2. I started playing this while I was till in high school. I attempted to go “pro”, but I could simply not put in enough time due to work and my family. I stopped this journey last year and this opened so much time for me.

Me in the blue shirt(Second from right) - Apologies for a blurry image

With my new-found time, I decided to focus on my career a bit more. I do part time studying at nights in topics like: Cyber security, Penetration testing and Linux. I found that I have a huge love for Network security.

Lastly for this post, I jumped onto the crypto train last year. Unfortunately missed the whole boom with Bitcoin. I think everyone have said, if I only climbed into it when bitcoin was low in price. I’m doing casual trading in Bitcoin and alt coin and is busy setting up a mining farm. Focusing on Alt coin mining and have made a lot of mistakes over the last year, so feel free to ask me anything in this regard as well.

I think that sums me up. I will attempt to post regular posts regarding my hobbies and basic “how-to” to help anyone that might have struggled with the same kind of things as me.

Thank you for reading.